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...banner was unstained, or very nearly so. He could and often had played the politicians' game; he had even accepted Talmadgeite help four years ago to get himself elected. But he had left Georgia the heritage of a good, and also well advertised, administration. He had left the state a new constitution, even though there was that legal hole in it through which Hummon had been able to charge to power...
...Rome University's august Aula Magna (Great Hall), eleven spotlights probed the platform where Socialist leaders fretfully shuffled back & forth under a huge wooden banner of a hammer and sickle and book (the Italian Socialist emblem). Delegates, observers and guests, filling the unheated auditorium to capacity, shivered in their overcoats. Pietro Nenni sat snugly at the rear of the platform, carefully concealed from view by a bowl of bright red carnations...
Thus, this nation finds itself in an embarrassing situation on the issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the U. S. at the same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs...
...Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism, and badly oriented American troops sell nylons and democracy for nightly fraternization. These are all familiar themes, stories that fill the columns of our daily papers. But the effect of the news releases cannot approach the impact achieved by portraying the scenes on the stage...
...suggests-expanding the testimony he had already given before the congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee-was the banner day for U.S. naval stupidity. Eight years before, in 1933, elaborate Pacific maneuvers known as Fleet Problem 14 had been performed. Their underlying assumption: that an enemy would strike with carrier-based planes at a U.S. naval base. Yet "at Pearl Harbor, at the moment of the most intense Pacific crisis in 1941, we repeated the very conditions of Fleet Problem...